HUBBLE ATLAS
Candidate Kuiper Belt Object — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Solar System

Candidate Kuiper Belt Object

June 14, 1995 · ESA/Hubble

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This is sample data from the Hubble Space Telescope that illustrates the detection of comets in the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune.